At the rear of a decommissioned aircraft carrier that now serves as a museum,
a brash Australian businessman unveiled his plans for a ship called Titanic
II.

Clive Palmer did not say the new model would be “unsinkable” during
yesterday’s press conference in New York. “It would be very cavalier to say
anything like that,” he said. “I think people have said that in the past.”

He did insist, however, that his quixotic dream to recreate the
Titanic would come to pass. Work would begin shortly in a
dockyard in China, he said. The contract would be signed within days,